03.01.12
Confirmed: Only androids and jargon at DARPA
At the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, androids and jargon reign.
How do we know?
From the agency’s solicitations for design proposals, compelling evidence showing no trace of human thought or need for skills in use of the English language.
From something called Component, Context and Manufacturing Model Library – 2 (which isn’t even accurate, since it buries the lede — a request for proposals for a military fighting vehicle called the FANG):
DARPA’s Adaptive Vehicle Make portfolio programs is aimed at compressing at least five-fold the development timelines for new complex cyber-electro-mechanical systems such as military vehicles. Under AVM, DARPA is pursuing the development of several elements of enabling infrastructure aimed at radically transforming the systems engineering/design/verification (META2/META-II), manufacturing (IFAB)
and innovation (vehicleforge.mil) elements of the overall make process for delivering new defense systems or variants. Each of these capabilities is largely generic, i.e, applicable to any cyber-electro-mechanical system.In order to excercise these capabilities in the context of a relevant military system, DARPA intends to build FANG — the Fast, Adaptable
Next Generation Ground Vehicle — a new heavy infantry fighting vehicle …The on-going META program is on track to deliver an integrated capability for: [rest of astonishing run-on sentence deleted] …
DARPA recognizes that the metalanguage specification developed and being refined under the META program and associated follow on efforts is key to the representation of component and context models to be developed under TA1 and TA2. Similarly, the manufacturing model specification being developed under the IFAB program is essential to the representation data assembled under TA3. While these efforts are incomplete , they are mature enough to form the basis of this effort under this BAA …
And, yes, that was as excruciating to transcribe as it was to read.
It cannot have been produced by warm-blooded humans.
Where the whatevers that composed it made on our planet? If not, when did they arrive here?
And what is it like to be in a lunch room with them?
Questions which, obviously, have no answers. The META, perhaps not developed under the TA1 and TA2, does not fit the BAA.
New college graduate meets DARPA’s FANG.
DARPA’s Box o’ Radar, interstellar flight and finding terrorists through social networks. Immune building. The jumping mine field. EXACTO — the smart guided sniper bullet.